Venture deep into the hinterlands of modern art history, and you come across the artistic movement of the 1880s and 1890s known as Symbolism. An international, diffuse, idealist, and mystical reaction ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

ARTH116 Introduction to Renaissance and Early Modern Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ARTH117 Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

Few things capture the imagination of art history more than a talented couple. Lee Miller and Man Ray, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Sonia and Robert Delaunay—the pairs all conjure up images of lovers ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

NEW YORK — It was a defining moment for the depressed art market when a lush portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction and set a record for the ...

Like history in general, art history is subject to recurrent revisions and reappraisals. Whether it occurs within their lifetimes or posthumously, some artists earn a place in the art-historical ...

Great art can be found in surprising places. Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan proves that. Almost 1700 miles west of Toronto and nearly 1000 miles east of Vancouver, Remai Modern opened in ...

I am an art historian who has carried out extensive research on the evolution of the market for “recent art.” And I can tell you that something generational is now happening with NFTs. As a historian, ...

India’s modern art history is often reduced to a brief list of celebrated men. But alongside them, and frequently despite structural barriers, women painters were carving out bold, original visual ...